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Originally Posted by PhatMike
Why not the new controller? Why 4 CIMs?
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No new controller because Programming has their hands on it and this isn't the Programming testbed, it's the Manufacturing testbed.
4 CIMs because we didn't want to worry about taking one of them out. Was easier just to wire them all up like this.
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Originally Posted by PhatMike
I'm going to go out on a limb for my 3rd question .. using steel as the chassis for weight? (as opposed to the new kitbot)
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The chassis was actually an off-season exercise to see how quickly we could build a strong chassis. Four bits of steel square tube, 8 gusset plates, a handful of self-tapping screws, some wheel mounts and about 4mins later and we had built a chassis that could support at least 330lb of vertical force. Not bad. Seeing as how we just wanted to make a quick testing platform, it was already built (well, not as much as you see in the pic, there was ~1-2 hours work on it today to get it there), we figured why not. Got the electronics off of last year's competiton bot (seriously just unbolted the bits and moved them, didn't take any wires off or anything) and shazam, test platform.
The new kitbot chassis... we might use that for the real construction this year. Wanna keep from cutting until we have a finalized design.